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Sarah Mae Flemming

  1. Prepare questions for Katharine Allen, Historic Columbia's Director of Research, about Columbia's civil rights story
  2. Columbia SC 63, Timeline of Civil Rights History [1]
  3. Columbia City of Women, Sarah Mae Flemming [2]
  4. Complaint in Flemming v. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co. (July 20, 1954)
  5. Motion to Dismiss and Answer in Flemming v. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co. (September 7, 1954)
  6. Flemming v. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co., 224 F.2d 752 (4th Circuit) (July 14, 1955) [3]
  7. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co. v. Flemming, 351 U.S. 901 (April 23, 1956) [4]
  8. New Trial May Clarify Court Action on Buses, Chicago Defender (May 26, 1956)
  9. Trial court materials in Flemming v. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co. (June 12, 1956)
  10. Flemming v. S.C. Elec. & Gas Co., 239 F.2d 277 (4th Circuit) (November 29, 1956) [5]
  11. Jury Dismisses Suit by Brown, Chicago Defender (June 12, 1957)
  12. The State, Obituary for Sarah Mae Flemming (1993) [6]
  13. The State, Series on Sarah Mae Flemming (2003) [7]
  14. Recommended: Cameron McGowan Currie, Before Rosa Parks: The Case of Sarah Mae Flemming, in W. Lewis Burke and Belina F. Gergel, Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy (2004) [8]

Rosa Parks

  1. Dara Lind, This 50-year-old article shows how the myth of Rosa Parks was made (December 1, 2016) [9]
  2. Josh Moon, Bus Boycott took planning, smarts, Montgomery Advertiser (November 29, 2015) [10]
  3. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (excerpt) (1987) [11]
    1. Note The full book is Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started it (1987) [12]
  4. Montgomery Bus Boycott [13]
  5. Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King's Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale Law Journal 999 (1989) (especially Part IV) [14]
  6. Debbie Elliott, 60 Years After The Boycott, Progress Stalls for Montgomery Buses, NPR (November 12, 2015) [15]
  7. Pamela Oliver, Review of The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks (February 18, 2018) [16]
    1. Note: The full book is Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2013) [17]
  8. Recommended: Catherine A. Barnes, Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit (1983) [18]

Metropolitan Transit

  1. Partnership for Southern Equity, Opportunity Deferred: Race, Transportation, and the Future of Metropolitan Atlanta (2019) [19]